Isabel Allende Books in Order

How many Isabel Allende books are there?

Isabel Allende has 34 books, released between 1982 and 2026. They include 3 series and 26 titles listed outside any series.

Isabel Allende Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 34 Isabel Allende books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Isabel Allende books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Isabel Allende Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Isabel Allende books run from The House of the Spirits (1982) to Story Telling: A Writing Life (2026), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Isabel Allende in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Isabel Allende books in order?

You only need to read Isabel Allende books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Isabel Allende

Start with The House of the Spirits (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Isabel Allende book?

Story Telling: A Writing Life (2026) is the newest Isabel Allende book released so far.

Is there a new Isabel Allende book coming?

No next Isabel Allende book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Isabel Allende has won

Wikidata records 8 awards and 2 nominations for Isabel Allende. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards2017Won
• Carl Sandburg Literary Award2013Won
• Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award2012Won
• National Prize for Literature (Chile)2010Won
• Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction2010Won
• Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso2003Won
• WILLA Literary Award2000Won
• American Book Awards1989Won
• Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book2005Shortlistedfor Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
• Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book2003Shortlistedfor City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende at a glance

Still publishing

Isabel Allende published a book as recently as 2026.

Release pace

Isabel Allende books have appeared about one a year on average.

Length

7,842 pages across the 24 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 326 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Isabel Allende books, 11 of 34, were published in the 2000s.

What the Isabel Allende books are about

27 of the 34 Isabel Allende books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: chilean authors is tagged on 5 of 27. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Chilean Authors 5 of 27 books
• History 5 of 27 books
• Spanish language books 4 of 27 books
• Spanish language materials 4 of 27 books
• Adventure stories 3 of 27 books
• Authors, Chilean 3 of 27 books
• Grandmothers 3 of 27 books
• NOVELAS CHILENAS 3 of 27 books
• Romance literature 3 of 27 books
• Spanish fiction 3 of 27 books
• Allende, isabel, 1942- 2 of 27 books
• Autores chilenos 2 of 27 books